I know I saw the answer to my question on the list couple of weeks back, but I seem to have lost it and search in the mailing list archives on the word "purge" gives very odd answers... The "Texutil explained" says on page 2 "texutil purge Afterwards, TEXutil reports the number of bytes regained. Optionally, you can pass a file pattern, thereby limiting the cleansing." As I'm a dummy, I don't seem to be able to put this in practice. I would like to get rid of the *.tuo files (and some others as well), so I tried texutil --purge *.tuo texutil --purge .tuo texutil --purge tuo but none of these have any effect whatsoever. So, how do I "pass a file pattern" so that texutil understands that I want to get rid of files called something.tuo? Greetings, Mari from snowy Finland
At 02:22 PM 2/4/2003 +0200, you wrote:
I know I saw the answer to my question on the list couple of weeks back, but I seem to have lost it and search in the mailing list archives on the word "purge" gives very odd answers...
The "Texutil explained" says on page 2 "texutil purge Afterwards, TEXutil reports the number of bytes regained. Optionally, you can pass a file pattern, thereby limiting the cleansing."
As I'm a dummy, I don't seem to be able to put this in practice. I would like to get rid of the *.tuo files (and some others as well), so I tried
texutil --purge *.tuo texutil --purge .tuo texutil --purge tuo
but none of these have any effect whatsoever. So, how do I "pass a file pattern" so that texutil understands that I want to get rid of files called something.tuo?
texutil --purge somefile will clean up the temp files that belong to somefile texutil --purge is often the best bet Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
mari.voipio@iki.fi writes:
The "Texutil explained" says on page 2 "texutil purge Afterwards, TEXutil reports the number of bytes regained. Optionally, you can pass a file pattern, thereby limiting the cleansing."
As I'm a dummy, I don't seem to be able to put this in practice. I would like to get rid of the *.tuo files (and some others as well), so I tried
Marie, there is no way to get rid of the tuo files with texutil. With the optional argument, you can *limit* the cleansing. That means, reduce the number of files being erased. For example, let's say you have a file called "finland.tex" and "snow.tex" together with all the messy context help files. Now you want to get rid of all the "snow" stuff but keep all the files for "finland.tex" If the texutil command would work how it should [1] then saying texutil --purge snow would delete the snow-mpgraph.mp, snow.tui, snow.log etc. but leave all "finland" files in the directory. Patrick [1] the pattern in texutil for removing files is not useable on unix. I had good experience with { $pattern .= "*.*" } line 2685. It is now { $pattern .= "-.*" } but this will probably not match any files around. (Perhaps there are some obscure files that I don't know of.) Hans, could you change this in texutil? Patrick
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
there is no way to get rid of the tuo files with texutil.
Sigh. One more thing to confuse my users, I'd hoped to be able to get rid of those as well. Now I will instead have to add one more line to my instructions saying "just don't care". And no, I do not expect average Windows dummy to be able to find a command line and say "texutil --purge". Instead I made a Windows shortcut (with suitable icon assigned to it) they can double-click to get the same effect. The fight towards easy Windows usability fit for "dummies" continues... (Although sometimes I do wish I'd stuck to Word instead of taking this plunge.) Mari the Windows person
mari.voipio@iki.fi writes: Hello again,
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
there is no way to get rid of the tuo files with texutil.
Sigh. One more thing to confuse my users, I'd hoped to be able to get rid of those as well. Now I will instead have to add one more line to my instructions saying "just don't care".
Perhaps it would be nice to have something like texutil --purge --all that removes all files that are removed with texutil --purge plus the .tuo, .dvi and .pdf files. and/or texutil --purge --most that removes all files that are removed with texutil --purge plus .tuo but keep the .dvi, .pdf files. Patrick
At 04:33 PM 2/4/2003 +0200, you wrote:
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
there is no way to get rid of the tuo files with texutil.
Sigh. One more thing to confuse my users, I'd hoped to be able to get rid of those as well. Now I will instead have to add one more line to my instructions saying "just don't care".
And no, I do not expect average Windows dummy to be able to find a command line and say "texutil --purge". Instead I made a Windows shortcut (with suitable icon assigned to it) they can double-click to get the same effect. The fight towards easy Windows usability fit for "dummies" continues... (Although sometimes I do wish I'd stuck to Word instead of taking this plunge.)
removing the tuo file will in most cases lead to additional runs the next time, so this is why we keep that file; i can add an --purgeall option if needed Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
At 04:33 PM 2/4/2003 +0200, you wrote:
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
there is no way to get rid of the tuo files with texutil.
Sigh. One more thing to confuse my users, I'd hoped to be able to get rid of those as well. Now I will instead have to add one more line to my instructions saying "just don't care".
And no, I do not expect average Windows dummy to be able to find a command line and say "texutil --purge". Instead I made a Windows shortcut (with suitable icon assigned to it) they can double-click to get the same effect. The fight towards easy Windows usability fit for "dummies" continues... (Although sometimes I do wish I'd stuck to Word instead of taking this plunge.)
Mari the Windows person
Then here is a window-wiper 26d25 < # Thanks to Fabrice Popineau for windows bin code 30,32c29,30 < # --analyze file.pdf : reports some statistics < # --purge [jobname] : removes temporary files < # --purgeall [jobname] : removes all temporary files ---
# --analyze file.pdf : reports some statistics # --purge [jobname] : removes temporary files 43c41 < $Program = "TeXUtil 7.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2003" ;
$Program = "TeXUtil 7.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2002" ; 78d75 < use FindBin ; 125d121 < "purgeall" => \$PurgeAllFiles, 609c605 < " --purge(all) tijdelijke (klad) files verwijderen \n" .
" --purge tijdelijke (klad) files verwijderen \n" . 640c636 < " --purge(all) entferne temporaere ConTeXt-Dateien \n" .
" --purge entferne temporaere ConTeXt-Dateien \n" . 671c667 < " --purge(all) rimuovi i file temporanei ConTeXt \n" .
" --purge rimuovi i file temporanei ConTeXt \n" . 702c698 < " --purge(all) clean up temporary context files \n" .
" --purge clean up temporary context files \n" . 1029,1030c1025,1026 < { ## $pm_path = `kpsewhich --format="other text files" --progname=context texutil.pl` ; < ## chomp($pm_path) ;
{ # $pm_path = `kpsewhich --format="other text files" --progname=context texutil.pl` ; # chomp($pm_path) ; 1032,1033c1028,1029 < # $pm_path = $0 ; < # $pm_path =~ s/\\/\//o ;
$pm_path = $0 ; $pm_path =~ s/\\/\//o ;
1035,1036c1031 < ## $pm_path =~ s/(.*)texutil.*?$/$1/i ; < $pm_path = "$FindBin::Bin/" ; ---
$pm_path =~ s/(.*)texutil.*?$/$1/i ;
2688,2690d2682 < if ($PurgeAllFiles) < { push @forsuresuffixes, @texnonesuffixes ; @texnonesuffixes = [] } < 2777d2768 < elsif ($PurgeAllFiles ) { PurgeFiles } ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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